[MacDV] Re: iDVD3- does it work w/ non-Apple superdrives?

[Gerhard Kuhn]

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 03:23  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

>
>> I really, really wish Apple would get off this idiotic kick of 
>> shutting out
>> 'upgrade' customers.
>
> This is not the reason they do this. They do this because they have to 
> pay a hardware-based licensing fee to the MPEGLA group to do MPEG-2 
> exporting. That's their deal with them.

They could easily rectify this by providing a plug much like Quick Time 
Pro that you get by paying the licensing fee, which is relatively 
small.  They choose not to because they make more money on new hardware 
rather than upgrading loyal costumers.
Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net